A sentencing hearing has been postponed for a Massillon man convicted of aggravated murder for fatally shooting his hospitalized wife in 2012.

John E. Wise, 68, was to learn his fate Monday before Summit County Common Pleas Judge Margaret Rowlands.

No new sentencing date has been set, according to a statement by Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh's office.

Earlier this week, county prosecutors took the rare step of seeking a lesser sentence than the life term called for under Ohio law.

A jury last week convicted Wise of aggravated murder and others charges that bring a mandatory life sentence. He would have to serve 23 years to be eligible for parole.

Walsh filed a motion Thursday asking that Wise be sentenced for the lesser crime of manslaughter to avoid a life sentence.

Prosecutors proposed a six-year term — three years for manslaughter and three years on the firearm specification.

The prosecutor's office says both Wise and his attorney have agreed to the recommended sentence.

Barbara Wise, 65, was in the intensive care unit at Akron General Medical Center in August 2012 after suffering cerebral aneurysms that had left her unable to speak, a family friend has said. Wise admitted shooting her. He had pleaded insanity, claiming he couldn't stand to see his wife in pain in the hospital.